Cynopsyche

Just a cute little foxy with a pretty red bow, pogo sticking along!!!!1 ^w^

Fixed to its base and weighing down the entire piece is a caged mass of three kinds of nails. At the bottom is an old railroad spike from the Western  expansion. Above it, the remains of a large nail pulled from the heart of an old growth hemlock tree. I suspect the tree was spiked to protect it, but was felled anyway. Lastly, three nails I pulled from the collapsed remains of the oldest homestead site in the region of Eastern Oregon I used to live in, first established in the 1860s. The Northern Paiutes used to grow corn there, now it's mostly dust.

@mcromwell and I did this solstice tradition a little early this year on account of the vibes being right for it.

So I took down our little Kringlefucker tree from last year, sawed off the butt and it helped warm our home through the night, as is tradition.